Summer
Working in a tech support position has plenty of ups and downs. Sometimes it's difficult to tell which is which. For example, right now it's that time of the summer where most of the people I support have gone off on vacation. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? There are some who would look at these days in wonder and awe. They would rejoice in the way the work tempo has slowed down. There are others who take the opportunity to complain about how boring it is when the phone only rings once and it's an issue easily solved in under a minute. I have to admit that I'm a closer to the former type of person than the latter.
I'm taking advantage of the slow down, of how it seems like I'm one of only a small handful of people here. I'm using the additional free time as an excuse to get up from my desk and take a walk around the complex, if not just to get the heart pumping a little more than otherwise. I'm also using it to get back into writing, which is a difficult thing these days. The internet offers far too many distractions that will leave you wondering where the hours have gone. As such, having time at a place where half the internet is blocked from access already can be useful so long as I can remember the ideas that come to me while I'm out hiking.
On the subject of hiking, I will not be participating in those wonderful Nijmegen Marches this year as I have in the past. Not that I'm not up for it, but that the registration this year filled up insanely fast. In previous years I have been able to get a slot as late as a couple of week after registration opened. This year, however, I tried to sign up on the same day as it opened and all the US slots were already filled. I'm not sure if this was due to cutting the number of slots available for the country or it's popularity among US personnel increased that much, but my suspicions lie with the former.
I'm taking advantage of the slow down, of how it seems like I'm one of only a small handful of people here. I'm using the additional free time as an excuse to get up from my desk and take a walk around the complex, if not just to get the heart pumping a little more than otherwise. I'm also using it to get back into writing, which is a difficult thing these days. The internet offers far too many distractions that will leave you wondering where the hours have gone. As such, having time at a place where half the internet is blocked from access already can be useful so long as I can remember the ideas that come to me while I'm out hiking.
On the subject of hiking, I will not be participating in those wonderful Nijmegen Marches this year as I have in the past. Not that I'm not up for it, but that the registration this year filled up insanely fast. In previous years I have been able to get a slot as late as a couple of week after registration opened. This year, however, I tried to sign up on the same day as it opened and all the US slots were already filled. I'm not sure if this was due to cutting the number of slots available for the country or it's popularity among US personnel increased that much, but my suspicions lie with the former.